I liked this weeks reading, but I'm not really sure I have a ton to say about it. I'm kind of interested in the fact that it almost read like a portrait session. In the beginning it was really formal and polite but partway through the reading it sort of lost that and it seems the author just started writing about the piece and exhibit as a whole the way she saw it instead of the way someone just there for analysis would. This kind of reminded me of when I'm taking pictures of someone and at first its really awkward but then eventually I'm more comfortable photographing them and they're more comfortable being photographed so the pictures start coming out better.
Darsie's overanalyzing was definitely more bearable than the reading about reading photographs. Although Nan Goldin took snapshot images and probably wasn't thinking about everything at once, the author seems to have at least taken some time to look at the image and consider her possible intentions instead of just going into every piece of the image in excruciating detail without paying attention to context.
I liked that the author talked about the entire “Ballad of Sexual Dependency” project instead of just the one image, because it gave a helpful view into where the image fit. I also thought it was just interesting to hear about the book/slideshow as a whole since it gives the image a purpose instead of it just being two people hugging.
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